Tilly (1992) Coercion, Capital and European States AD 990 - 1992 (EVERYONE READS)
Downing (1992) The Military Revolution and Political Change: Origins of Democracy and Autocracy in Early Modern Europe.
Downing “Constitutionalism, warfare and political change in early modern Europe” Theory and Society, 17. [article] (EVERYONE READS)
Gorski (2003) The Disciplinary Revolution
Adams (1999) “Culture in Rational-Choice Theories of State Formation” [article] (EVERYONE READS)
Padgett and Ansell (1993) “Robust Action and the Rise of the Medici, 1400-1434” [article] (EVERYONE READS)
Lipset, S.M., 1960, Political Man
Brustein, The Logic of Evil, 1996
Michael Mann, Sources of Social Power, Vol. I & II, 1993, 1996
Thomas Ertman (1997) Birth of the Leviathan (EVERYONE READS)
Poggi, The Development of the Modern State, 1978
Julia Adams, 2005, The Familial State
Perry Anderson, 1974, Lineages of the Absolutist State
Immanuel Wallerstein (1974-1989) “The Modern World System”
Sewell Jr., William H., 1996, “Three temporalities: Toward an Eventful Sociology” [chapter/article] (EVERYONE READS)
Ronald Aminzade (1992) – “Historical sociology and time” [article] (EVERYONE READS)
Reinhard Bendix Kings or people: Power and the mandate to rule (1978)
Miguel Centeno – “Blood and debt” (1997)
Henrik Spruyt, 1994 The Sovereign State and its competitors
Douglas North “Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance” [HOLD OFF]
Douglas North and Barry Weingast “Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in 17th century England” The Journal of Economic History, 1989. [article] (EVERYONE READS)
Nationalism
Globalization
Ideology
Revolutions
Political Violence
((COMPILED FROM HANDBOOK, SOC724 SYLLABUS, AND ADDITIONAL SEARCHING OF CLASSICS. NEEDS NEWER ADDITIONS))
Marx, Karl. 1970. A contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. New York: Internal Publishers. preface.
Traugott (1985) Armies of the Poor
Marx, Class Struggles in France 1848-1850
Skocpol, 1979 States and Social Revolutions
Goodwin, Jeff, 2001. No Other Way Out. States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Burawoy 1989 “Two Methods in Search of a Science: Skocpol versus Trotsky”
Aya, Rod, 1979 “Theories of Revolution Reconsidered: Contrasting Models of Collective Violence”
Sohrabi, Nader (1995) “Historicizing Revolutions: Constitutional Revolutions in the Ottoman
Empire, Iran, and Russia, 1905-1908”
Beissinger, Mark. 2002. Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Davies (1962) “Toward a Theory of Revolution”
Collins, Randall. 1993. “Maturation of the State-Centered Theory of Revolution and Ideology.” Sociological Theory 11: 117-28.
Gurr (1970) Why Men Rebel
Trotsky (1938) History of the Russian Revolution
Tilly, Charles, (1975) “Revolutions and collective violence”
Taylor, Michael, (1988), “Rationality and Revolutionary collective action”
OTHERS: Barrington Moore, Stinchecombe, Jack Goldstone, Smelser, State theories (Marxist, etc.) State Theories
Chibber, Locked in Place
Fred Block “The Ruling Class Does not Rule”
Bensel (1990) Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of State Authority in America 1859-1877
Miliband/Poulantzas Debate
Offe?
Therborn “What does the ruling class do when it rules?”
Waldner , 1999, State Building and Late Development,
State Power, Elites
Power & Agency
State Institution
Democracy, Democratic Transitions
David Abraham (1981) The Collapse of the Weimar Republic
Ivan Ermakoff, Ruling Oneself Out
Political Institutions (Go back to question for guide)
Regimes
Citizenship
Civil Society, Public Sphere, Social Capital )
Political Culture and democratic politics (participation, voting, party creation, Electoral Processes)
Welfare State
Social Movements
Rational Choice Theory, Resource Mobilization, Political opportunities& constraints.
>>IN GENERAL, GOOD IDEA TO GET A COPY OF THE BLACKWELL COMPANION FOR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS<< This is just to get us started.
PAM’S WEBSITE IS EXCELLENT RESOURCE ON THIS STUFF. LOTS OF ARTICLES ON TOP OF THESE.
Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward, 1977, Poor People’s Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail.
Jenkins and Perrow, (1977), “Insurgency of the Powerless: Farm Worker Movements (1946-1972)”
McAdam, 1982, Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970
Cohen and Arato, 1992, Chapter 10 “Social Movements and Civil Society” in Civil Society and Political Theory
Tarrow, Sidney, Struggling to Reform, 1983, Western Societies Program Occasional Paper No. 15, Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Tarrow, Sidney, 1998, Power In Movement, 2nd Edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Olson, The Logic of Collective Action (1965)
Marwell and Oliver, The Critical Mass in Collective Action (1993)
Pamela Oliver (1993). "Formal Models of Collective Action." Annual Review of Sociology 19: 271-300.
Bert Klandermans. "Mobilization and Participation." ASR 49 (Oct 1984):583-600.
Heckathorn, Douglas D. (1996). "The Dynamics and Dilemmas of Collective Action." American Sociological Review 61(2): 250-277.
Bert Klandermans and Dirk Oegema. "Potentials, Networks, Motivations and Barriers: Steps Toward Participation in Social Movements." ASR 52 (1987): 519-532.
Dirk Oegema and Bert Klandermans. (1994). "Why Social Movement Sympathizers Don't Participate: Erosion and Nonconversion of Support." American Sociological Review 59(5): 703-722. MS 174-189.
Edward Walsh and Rex Warland. "Social Movement Involvement in the Wake of a Nuclear Accident: Activists and Free Riders in the TMI Area." ASR 48 (Dec 1983): 764-780.
Zhao, Dingxin. "Ecologies of Social Movements: Student Mobilization during the 1989 Prodemocracy Movement in Beijing" American Journal of Sociology; 1998, 103, 6, May, 1493-1529.
Gould, “Multiple Networks and Mobilization in the Paris Commune, 1871” (1991)
Gould, Roger V., 1995, Insurgent Identities, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Hechter, Michael, 1987, Principles of Group Solidarity
Martin, Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Melucci, Alberto, 1989, Nomads of the Present, Philadephia: Temple
Paul DiMaggio and Walter Powell, 1991, “Introduction” The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis
John McCarthy and Mayer Zald. The Trend of Social Movements in America: Professionalization and Resource Mobilization. (1973)
McCarthy, John D. and Mayer N. Zald, 1977, “Resource Mobilization and Social Movements: A Partial Theory”
Chong, Dennis, 1991, Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement
David S. Meyer 2004. Annual Review of Sociology. 30: 125-45.
Kriesi, H. (1995). The Political Opportunity Structure of New Social Movements: Its Impact on Their Mobilization. The Politics of Social Protest: Comparative Perspectives On States and Social Movements. J. C. Jenkins and B. Klandermans. Minneapolis, MN, U of Minnesota Press: 167-198.
Amenta, E. and M. P. Young (1999). "Democratic States and Social Movements: Theoretical Arguments and Hypotheses." Social Problems 46(2): 153-168.
Raka Ray. "Women's Movements and Political Fields" Social Problems 1998.
Andrews, Kenneth T "The Impacts of Social Movements on the Political Process: The Civil Rights Movement and Black Electoral Politics in Mississippi". American Sociological Review; 1997, 62, 5, Oct, 800-819.
Meyer, D. S. and S. Staggenborg (1996). "Movements, Countermovements, and the Structure of Political Opportunity." American Journal of Sociology101(6): 1628-1660.
Goodwin, J. and J. M. Jasper (1999). “Caught in a Winding, Snarling Vine: The Structural Bias of Political Process Theory.” Sociological Forum 14(1): 27-54.
Marco G. Giugni "Was It Worth the Effort? The Outcomes and Consequences of Social Movements" Annual Review of Sociology 1998
Social Movements cont.
Discourse, Frames, identities, repression
Gamson, “Goffman’s Legacy to Political Sociology” (1985)
Snow, Rochford, Worden, and Benford, “Frame Alignment Processes, Micromobilization, and Movement Participation” (1986)
Snow and Benford, “Ideology, Frame Resonance, and Participant Mobilization” (1988)
Babb, Sarah, 1996, “’A True American System for Finance’: Frame Resonance in the US Labor Movement, 1866 to 1886”
Gamson, William A. And David S. Meyer, 1996,“Framing Political Opportunity
Snow, David A., et al., 1980, “Social Networks and Social Movements: Microstructural Approach to Differential Recruitment”
"Hot Movements, Cold Cognition: Thinking about Social Movements in Gendered Frames" Ferree, Myra Marx and Merrill, David A. Contemporary-Sociology; 2000, 29, 3, May, 454-462.
Pamela Oliver and Hank Johnston, 2000, “What a Good Idea! Ideologies and Frames in Social Movement Research”
David A. Snow and Robert D. Benford, 2000, Comment on Oliver and Johnston, “Clarifying the Relationship between Framing and Ideology”
Oliver and Johnston, 2000, Reply to Snow and Benford, “Breaking the Frame”
McAdam, Doug and Ronnelle Paulsen, 1993, “Specifying the Relationship between Social Ties and Activism”
Myra Marx Ferree __"Resonance and Radicalism:__ Feminist Framing in the Abortion Debates of the United States and Germany." American Journal of Sociology 2003, Volume 109 Number 2 (September 2003): 304–44.
Stephen Ellingson. "Understanding the Dialectic of Discourse and Collective Action: Public Debate and Rioting in Antebellum Cincinnati." American Journal of Sociology 101: 100-144. 1995. MS 268-280.
*Steinberg, M. W. (1999). “The Talk and Back Talk of Collective Action: A Dialogic Analysis of Repertoires of Discourse among Nineteenth-Century English Cotton Spinners.” American Journal of Sociology 105(3): 736-780.
Kane, A. E. (1997). “Theorizing Meaning Construction in Social Movements: Symbolic Structures and Interpretation during the Irish Land War, 1879-1882.” Sociological Theory 15(3, Nov): 249-276.
Elisabeth S. Clemens. Organizational Repertoires and Institutional Change: Women's Groups and the Transformation of U.S. Politics, 1890-1920.American Journal of Sociology 1993, 98, 4, Jan, 755-798.
*Morris, A. and N. Braine (2001). Social movements and oppositional consciousness. Oppositional consciousness: the subjective roots of social protest. J. Mansbridge and A. Morris. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press: 20-37.
McCarthy, J. D., C. McPhail, et al. (1996). "Images of Protest: Dimensions of Selection Bias in Media Coverage of Washington Demonstrations, 1982 and 1991." American Sociological Review61(3): 478-499
Roscigno, V. J. and W. F. Danaher (2001). "Media and Mobilization: The Case of Radio and Southern Textile Worker Insurgency, 1929 to 1934."American Sociological Review66(1): 21-48.
William Gamson and Andre Modigliani. 1989. "Media Discourse and Public Opinion on Nuclear power: A Constructionist Approach." American Journal of Sociology95: 1-37.
Mara Loveman. "High-Risk Collective Action: Defending Human Rights in Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina." American Journal of Sociology; 1998, 104, 2, Sept, 477-525.
Special Topic Areas
Feminist ()
Race
Labor
Etc.
NOTE: Areas overlap. In one test, Civic Society, Political Participation and Regimes
READINGS FROM HANDBOOK AND BEYOND
((COMPILED FROM HANDBOOK, SOC724 SYLLABUS, AND ADDITIONAL SEARCHING OF CLASSICS. NEEDS NEWER ADDITIONS))
Marx, Karl. 1970. A contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. New York: Internal Publishers. preface.
Traugott (1985) Armies of the Poor
Marx, Class Struggles in France 1848-1850
Skocpol, 1979 States and Social Revolutions
Goodwin, Jeff, 2001. No Other Way Out. States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Burawoy 1989 “Two Methods in Search of a Science: Skocpol versus Trotsky”
Aya, Rod, 1979 “Theories of Revolution Reconsidered: Contrasting Models of Collective Violence”
Sohrabi, Nader (1995) “Historicizing Revolutions: Constitutional Revolutions in the Ottoman
Empire, Iran, and Russia, 1905-1908”
Beissinger, Mark. 2002. Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Davies (1962) “Toward a Theory of Revolution”
Collins, Randall. 1993. “Maturation of the State-Centered Theory of Revolution and Ideology.” Sociological Theory 11: 117-28.
Gurr (1970) Why Men Rebel
Trotsky (1938) History of the Russian Revolution
Tilly, Charles, (1975) “Revolutions and collective violence”
Taylor, Michael, (1988), “Rationality and Revolutionary collective action”
OTHERS: Barrington Moore, Stinchecombe, Jack Goldstone, Smelser,
State theories (Marxist, etc.)
State Theories
>>IN GENERAL, GOOD IDEA TO GET A COPY OF THE BLACKWELL COMPANION FOR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS<< This is just to get us started.
PAM’S WEBSITE IS EXCELLENT RESOURCE ON THIS STUFF. LOTS OF ARTICLES ON TOP OF THESE.
NOTE: Areas overlap. In one test, Civic Society, Political Participation and Regimes